Elia Suleiman

The Hollywood machine may be pumping its brakes right now — with an ever-growing list of release date delays announced across the next month and rumors of movie theaters temporaily suspending operations in the wake of COVID-19’s recently-announced pandemicity — but we at InRO are soldiering on. In our second dispatch from the 2020 Portland International Film Festival, we continue taking on films in the home stretch of their international festival runs, including: Pietro Marcello’s Martin Eden, Sergei Loznitsa’s State…

Our second dispatch from the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival (here’s our first) includes several more competition titles from this year’s Cannes that we’ve been eager to get to see (Kleber Mendoça-Filho and Juliano Dornelles’s Bacurau, Elia Suleiman’s It Must Be Heaven, and Justine…